{"id":678,"date":"2026-08-15T16:56:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T21:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/zero-waivers-326-new-hires-texass-h-1b-freeze-has-no-enforcement-mechanism\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T21:58:11","slug":"zero-waivers-326-new-hires-texass-h-1b-freeze-has-no-enforcement-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/zero-waivers-326-new-hires-texass-h-1b-freeze-has-no-enforcement-mechanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero Waivers, 326 New Hires: Texas&#8217;s H-1B Freeze Has No Enforcement Mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six months after Gov. Abbott froze new H-1B filings at Texas state agencies and public universities unless the Texas Workforce Commission grants written permission, zero institutions had requested that permission as of July 17 &#8212; while DOL data shows 326 new-hire H-1B filings certified anyway. Reporters who asked TWC to explain were pointed at the state&#8217;s public records law instead of getting an answer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/tx_h1b_freeze_zero_enforcement.php\">https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/tx_h1b_freeze_zero_enforcement.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six months after Gov. Abbott froze new H-1B filings at Texas state agencies and public universities unless the Texas Workforce Commission grants written permission, zero institutions had requested that permission as of July 17 &#8212; while DOL data shows 326 new-hire H-1B filings certified anyway. Reporters who asked TWC to explain were pointed at the &#8230; <a title=\"Zero Waivers, 326 New Hires: Texas&#8217;s H-1B Freeze Has No Enforcement Mechanism\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/zero-waivers-326-new-hires-texass-h-1b-freeze-has-no-enforcement-mechanism\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Zero Waivers, 326 New Hires: Texas&#8217;s H-1B Freeze Has No Enforcement Mechanism\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h-1b","category-immigration","category-tx-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}